On Saturday, InLightPress was hacked. On Sunday, if you visited InLightPress’ website you received the following message.

The website was attacked by hackers, will be back within a short time.

When I visited the site on Monday morning, the following message appeared.

The website is facing privateering from a political destination which is affected from what we publish and will be back soon.

On Monday afternoon InLightPress’ website read:

The website is facing privateering from a political destination which is affected from what we publish and will be back tomorrow.

I am certain that the “political destination” referred to by InLightPress is the office of Mahmoud Abbas.

Aside for a condemnation from The Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists, the incident has received zero press coverage. I will continue to monitor this very closely, check back here for updates.

Update: It appears that someone may not have taken to kindly to the attack on InLightPress. It appears that Fatah aligned Palestine Press, better known for its attacks against Hamas, has been attacked. If one currently tries to visit the site you receive the following message.

Sorry. There is intense pressure on the site you can try again.

Update: While the InLightPress website remains down, their Twitter account returned to action this morning.

Update: It now appears that hackers may be targeting Wafa, the official news agency of the Palestinian authority.

Update: It now appears that Ma’an News’ Arabic website is down. The English site is up…for now.

Update: It now appears that Maan English is down.

Update: Alright, Maan English is back up, didn’t appear to be real hack, was down for under 10 minutes.